A vulnerability was found in GNU C Library. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function __nss_hostname_digits_dots. The manipulation leads to memory corruption.

This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-0235. The attack can be launched remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment.

It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.